Samir Flynn

Biography

Samir Flynn is a Toulouse-based rapper of Tunisian and Irish descent, a blend he embraces as a driving force of his artistic identity. Immersed in music from an early age (drums, piano, choir), he discovered rap in high school through open-mic sessions and pursued it at the University of Mirail, where he set up a home studio in his shared flat. Quickly involved in the local scene, he collaborated with the association Bajo el Mar and the LVL UP collective, and between 2020 and 2022 took part in running an artistic squat called “Cluster,” which served as a living space, studio, and political hub, where he recorded for himself and other rappers from Toulouse’s SoundCloud scene. In 2023, he made a breakthrough by winning first the regional and then the national Buzz Booster competition, a springboard that propelled him into the spotlight of the French rap scene. That same year, he released the EP *Plus rien n’est triste* (“Nothing is Sad Anymore”), introspective and melancholic, in collaboration with producer Polllo, followed by *Colère (douce)* (“Gentle Anger”), a minimalist, melodic project infused with contained rage. In 2025, together with his close collaborator La Tête (Malo), he released the album *Already Dead!*, a hybrid work blending rap, rock, pop, and jazz, carried by emotional and stage intensity that left a strong impression at their Metronum performance. His style is built on a singular use of the voice as an instrument, raw and sensitive writing drawing as much from the legacy of Brassens and Brel as from the expressive freedom of contemporary rap, asserting an identity that is both unvarnished, fragile, and incandescent. More recently, he has also been trying to expand his artistic practice into acting, exploring new forms of expression beyond music.